and. have. dozens of hostages seized by al-qaeda linked insurgents are reported dead on geria following a botched rescue attempt by the country's military. and the crisis in algeria causes david cameron to once again delay a much anticipated speech on the case future within the european union. and as israel gets ready to go to the polls prime minister benjamin netanyahu struggles to maintain support for his reelection bid.

this hour is he coming to live from moscow with me marina joshie. algeria says there are a number of dead and injured following a hostage rescue attempt at a gas plant near its border with libya there are also reports indicating that at least thirty captives and eleven militants have been killed in the operation by the country's military wing group occupied the plant on wednesday claiming the hostage capture which included man and foreigners was in retaliation for french military intervention in neighboring mali french president francois hollande said that the situation means that the operation to oust islamic militants is justified fighting continues across small you with paris increasing its presence on the grounds to fourteen hundred troops the e.u. has pledged to help train them all you know army while the u.s. also promised logistical support but stopped short of deploying its own military

othar and historian gerald horne says the fallout from that weak old intervention could eventually backfire and result in president alon being forced out of office. what mr old law is doing is enlarging and worsening an existing problem what's striking is that the mr z. had initiated this intervention in libya and part raises for it being a popularity ratings i think that it's fair to say that mr mccoll on this intervention in mali for similar reasons the problem is that when the body bags returning to paris the populous will turn on vista along with a vengeance and he will be driven from office just as surely as sort of the what's driven from office i think that this war and the consequences of want to spread it into neighboring countries is going to jeopardize french uranium interest in nigeria it's going to jeopardize the kinds of agreements that france and the other

north atlantic countries have with algeria in terms of natural gas so i think that if they had thought through what they were getting themselves into they would not have moved in the direction of an invasion i dare say that this french intervention in mali will end in tears. meanwhile the situation in algeria has caused british prime minister david cameron to indefinitely postponed his much anticipated speech on the u.k. status within the e.u. excerpts released from the statement say there is a danger that europe will fail and that there is a looming possibility of britain leaving the blog unless reforms are carried out already sarah ferguson has by delaying the speech cameron has put himself into an increasingly tight spot. this long awaited fourth speech is now being put back the prime minister saying that this is cheetah the own growing crisis at the algerian gas plant now obviously we see the situation there developing and the prime minister saying that it's a very dangerous very fluid situation but i think the prime minister really in this

circumstance assert himself for a phone with these lessons of wide open to the criticism here we saw this speech arranged for right back last year around gene time it's been put back four times already. various different reasons at one point the prime minister having jokes comparing the speech to tantric sex saying if you know the best so when it actually comes you know that's not looking particularly funny anymore and people wondering when if indeed it will ever come well everyone was looking for from this speech was clarity leadership over this issue we've been speaking to a lot of the british public over the past few weeks and they're very confused about what cameron stance is on europe one n.p.r. was speaking to said despite this is the tail that's wagging the dog that this hard core group of euro skeptics within his own party were really dictating the prime minister's actions and i think you've really got them what should really be treated

him so far into the corner where he's got to have a referendum after an election and he will try a school for politicians to use to paper over the cranks to give a bit to them a bit to them and say that we now are looking for europe to make a response to our proper request for david cameron as prime minister he's definitely in a tight spot right now he's he's not looking particularly strong he's not looking like he's led the way and so you know he is a lot of trouble here we seem to speak today once again so the uncertainty continues i'm afraid. critic sam certainty all over it will deter foreign investors from britain and angele bring it to the edge of an economic cliff it comes with a prediction is that you could be slipping from its ranking as one of the world's top ten economies will bring you more analysis on that later in the program.

in the meantime pakistan's government has reached a deal with a muslim cleric to hold mass protest in the capital islamabad tens of thousands of quadri supporters and of the sit in after he convinced authorities to dissolve parliament before march ahead of elections after the voting should take place within ninety days and they've also agreed to discuss electoral reforms however quadrate demand that the army be consulted on the structure of the interim administration was rejected political chaos and growing fury over widespread corruption is also due print after the government clashed with the country's top court its order to arrest the prime minister over a corruption case has been rejected professor paul sheldon of food from california state university says quadriga message raises a lot of questions he's been able to keep his. campaign talks very big he says he believes in supporting minority rights you know i haven't heard him can do the murders. shiites by and large numbers just to have been

a professor of constitutional law says that only he can understand what the prophet mohammed meant and this is a myth of action the people who wrote pakistan of always depended upon the west particularly the british for other programs too such as america. and to have the indication you have both international support and some money behind you out there is always a good indicator when you're running against the wealthiest families and part of the earth much in results don't come out the way he once you have claimed it was a brush of the process the only a man such as him couldn't run a real islamic democracy process but instead is already an islamic republic. used to be very precise about why he regards it as a failure or simply citing corruption is not enough mass rally staged by the

influential cleric in pakistan of only added to the country's uncertainty signal actually forms democracy and our own corruption to hear condrey has called for revolution before as a deal was reached r.t.s. not explicitly to protest leader but told us exactly what he means by that. when i see evolution we should keep in your mind in egypt in tunis in libya and all these countries. we needed a dictatorship for years and years for a long time. and the people stood up against that in iran there was one eric here rule of shen shah that people stood up against that. are dystonic is bit different there is no one eric you allude me that monadic illusion or a military dictatorship here is electoral authority did twenty billion is electoral dictatorship true democracy does not exist in this society neither in political

field nor in social field nor in economic field or democracy so this is a law lessness total chaos and anarchy in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw this is the single nation a single country in the whole muslim world having a nuclear capability and if the same situation continues there could be a very big disaster if we come to the level of collapse so out of this margin movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world. and old third world and developing muslim countries we have to get to the end of corruption and corrupt leaders. and you can see our interview with pakistan's top cleric in full at r.t. dot com here's a glimpse of what else you can find there. watch online showing how a fire man was almost knocked from his ladder by huge slab of snow after his lucky

escape he continued to save the lives of a woman and a baby trapped in the apartment one that on our website. dan it's not a sin to be beautiful at top vatican cleric graces the cover of vanity fair more in the story and much more afterwards into com. so i have the twenty second of january election israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has to deal with plummeting poll figures was man of viewing his politics as not radical enough although still expected to return into office netanyahu is losing supporters to his former rival wing allies as he's publicly are now reports . he's the surprise success story bitching campaign one tween millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel naftali bennett used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections rolled

around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a left wing person driving the bus as far as being i mean. even though i am opposed to a state. i would say most members of the likud obviously i mean that is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a want to leader at home he's losing face among supporters for not being so kish enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know one of them are the sopranos never returning for another season . when i throw in a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen how this is like this has been a jewish home party for position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts a little yahoo was still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up

his rhetoric i say in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right not one yahoos we could list has grown even more right wing with radicals like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would be ten a party is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews whose eternal capital. but what would be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves. the day after will netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of

violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in a suicide bombing seventeen years ago in the more that we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left a leader who significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope the left is also divided but i do think netanyahu will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to the bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians a limited self rule in the wrist and while that might seem a possible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear affect in a time yahoo is acutely aware of policy r.t. tel aviv. well just days left until israel hands the polls to choose its next parliament r.t. will be closely following the election campaign and vote providing here was in-depth coverage. how will tension with to run develop will settle that expansion

isolate chan there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides what arts are. well still in shambles survivors of october superstorm sandy are struggling to get their lives back to normal and they say they're getting a little help from u.s. authorities here in your stories after a short break. more

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escape the doldrums. when you've controlled the banks because their rage is the out of control you say let them lend their own money and interest to do what they like but you open up an interest free loan supply from the national bank that's the one thing being a king will not do and which the present government will not allow because it that smashes the power of the commercial banks of the present european community structure is obviously just and has no longer taking any concern of the of the the political interests and reactions of the peoples of europe it's not just the u.k. it's the people of france is the people of holland it's the people of ireland until they were deceived it's all the peoples of europe they want a new relationship in the political structure and probe into the activities of russia's former defense minister has led to a criminal case being launched and intel is here to kabul being investigated over

allegations of abuse of power the program has already revealed that same top some top to fans officials ordered soldiers to landscape the gardens at a vacation base along into the former defense minister's brother in law a fan's ministry has been at the center of a manger of corruption scandal for several months now and it's always their dickov lost his job and amber and has been a witness in a number of fraud cases involving his former subordinates. and. you're watching our t.v. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world a string of roadside bombings and shiite muslim regions of iraq has raised the dast to at least sixty people since wednesday an extended a deadly wave of bloodshed into a second day the deadliest of the attacks targeting shiite muslim areas killed at least seven people after two car bombs exploded near shia pilgrims traveling to a shrine in the city north of baghdad although there was no immediate claim of responsibility such attacks are

a tactic of sunni insurgents seeking to undermine the shiite led government. saif gadhafi the son of former libyan leader moammar gadhafi has appeared in court in libya for the first time since his capture and more than a year ago he's facing charges of handing secret data to an international criminal court lawyer putting the country's security in danger the trial is thought to be linked to a deal with the i.c.c. that once him extradited to the hague to face trial for war crimes meanwhile former french president nicolas sarkozy is denying claims by sites that he received millions of euros in financial support from khadafi during an election campaign. he was bush fires burning out of control across the australian state of victoria the blaze that started in a national park destroyed up to twenty five thousand have as now predicted to move fast in a northeasterly direction carried by strong wind several homes have been raised and manny fires still remain on contained prompting fears of more to come the way of

a bushfire as he just really nearly two weeks ago sparked by soaring temperatures that reached over forty degrees centigrade. now the u.s. northeastern states ravaged by superstorm sandy in late october have been promised over fifty billion dollars aid by lawmakers to the sound as yet to approve the measures passed earlier this week in the house of representatives despite many opposing the bill and while politicians are bickering over cash storm survivors are left with almost no support and artes and associates are going away for its. gorgeous beach turned coast area the rockaways in queens one of the places hit hardest by hurricane sandy two and a half months ago still in shambles today miles and miles of devastated businesses residential buildings and houses like this one

a place some family probably used to call home now almost literally hanging by a thread with almost zero chance of ever being rebuilt few locals on the collapsed boardwalk most of them in dire need of help this man chose to remain anonymous to to government related work survived hurricane katrina his hopes of recovery post sandy are meager never going to move you still go parts of alabama louisiana mississippi where it got hit with katrina was other areas they've been touched yet after sandy hit and late october he spent over a month with no electricity heat or hot water and thirty degree weather famer three times i feel the creation of three times i got politicians had their per hour. the folks here that put him in office of the least on the a list money looks better in your pocket than is spending it on something that may get washed away again i had to replace my. water heater retired local roberta hof was currently burning

building her walls floors emma stairs says the destruction after the hurricane has been immense we don't have a movie theater we don't have the hospital it's gone the banks and finally opening now it's two and a half months it looks like here as after a war or after no in afghanistan or something. and most of the help in hurricane affected areas has come from volunteers i didn't see too much of the red cross to be truth it was volunteers who have often been affected by sandy themselves like ayman use of from staten island actually it was like a foot on top of it that's how much it was the water his house deemed unsafe after the hurricane is about to be demolished the only think we need is the plants the fund is not there to get you know we we get in like two percent so we're going to get the ninety percent that's a mystery we need a check from god that's what we'll be for a month and a half a man lived in this tent where he also set up

a help center for the community somewhere a lot of people coming there still six seven hundred people. a day six seven hundred yes yes. all of these people victims of sandy everybody around here go up to them they'll tell you the same thing they said you know they handed me a sandwich and a blanket and i was in water up to my chest and they said hey see you later oh by the way i'm not allowed to exit the truck occupy sandy a child of the occupy wall street movement has been a big part of the recovery effort to even praised by the n.y.p.d. what we have is a lot of people coming in here and not knowing where to turn and some of them are in tears and you know it's very hard to tell them that help is coming and you hear all this talk about it the nine billion this is the one thing that would be a big help if it actually got to communities while politicians seem to have perfected the skill of arguing over how much cash to spend on relief aid getting money and help to ordinary people who needed right now is clearly a skill that is yet to be learned and stacy churkin. new york.

russia is warning that a currency world war is looming for the global economy the concerns were sparked by japan's move to lower the value of the yen and pursuit of better exports causing fear of a massive chain reaction as other nations do the same going off as the story. an economy not so far away actually the global economy is on the verge of a currency war allow me to paint a quick picture for you in japan where the newly elected prime minister has been pushing for a more aggressive central bank policy has been dropping the yen went down by eleven percent since december meanwhile in europe the euro is rising and that's right despite the debt and eurozone crisis austerity measures and so on the euro grew by seven percent in the last six months and experts say europe has fired the first shell e.u. financial authorities warn the rise of the euro is threatening the economy so it is

possible it will be deliberately dropped meanwhile across the atlantic the united states has been printing blocks for the last five years to support markets but that also makes the dollars cheaper in washington has been looking over the shoulder and china which was the majority of u.s. foreign debt and beijing is also accused of holding back the u. one the reason why they do that is that one currency has dropped the export becomes cheaper making the country more competitive obviously that's not greeted with applause by its competitors other countries which we tallied by dropping the very currencies so it's like a domino effect and the last time a major currency war happened was during the great depression in the one nine hundred thirty s. which resulted in a slowdown of international trade and all was part of the lead up to wald war two but that's not all if the explorers become cheaper imports become more expensive so ordinary citizens can buy less imported goods and traveling abroad traveling abroad rather becomes more expensive that leads to public disapproval unrest and so on

that's why russia which only cheers the g twenty is so worried and it's very likely you will see a major skirmish when the groups financial ministers meeting next month in moscow. and coming out in just a few minutes abbie larkin breaking the sat here on our stay with us. congress's approval rating has hit an all time low never has american record history been so disappointed with the lawmaking body the united states even former arkansas governor mike huckabee said that their approval ratings are just barely above the pedophile so i guess that's good news for the disgusting pedophiles out there so you won't be the most hated group in america anymore but i don't think

this statistic reflects the quality of government but so much the quality of the governed in some small country with a hard to pronounce name if the government became that unpopular the country would simply collapse but no matter how many wars congress gets involved in and no matter how many jobs are shipped overseas or no matter how much the american dream gets stamped out everyone still rallies around obama and votes democrat and republican this popularity rating doesn't show how effective the government is it shows how arrogant they are because they seem to have no fear whatsoever of getting reelected or being punished in any way for their bad behavior so you know congress i have to save you keep up the good work go for one percent popularity and maybe someone will actually do something about you but that's just my opinion. download the official publication to yourself choose your language stream quality

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aloha welcome to break into that i'm your host abby martin let's talk about a west african nation of mali as i anticipate we'll be hearing a lot more about in the coming weeks over the last few days french troops have been deployed to the country to counter girl rebel forces and aid their army to reclaim areas occupied by militant groups so why should we care about this well because back in december the state department and treasury announced that two extremist groups existed in mali the movement for unity and geog in west africa and officially labeled them as terrorist groups mali has been and remains an area where the u.s. routinely carries out unmanned drone operations in this past monday defense secretary leon panetta announced that quote we have a responsibility to make sure that al qaeda is not a stablish a base for operations in north africa and moly.